Overview

• The National Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance of media reports on two incidents involving children in Madhya Pradesh.
• Notices seek detailed reports within two weeks from the Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary and the Jabalpur Superintendent of Police on the electrocution deaths.
• Separate notices went to Jhabua District Magistrate Neha Meena and Superintendent of Police Padam Vilochan Shukla regarding the branding of three children.
• A preliminary electricity department probe in Jabalpur points to illegally drawn power; an SDM-led team is probing the deaths of Ayush Jharia, 8, and Ved Shrivas, about 10.
• Doctors reported the branded children had pneumonia and burn marks, all were put on oxygen, one child was referred to Dahod, and police are investigating who carried out the branding and where it occurred.